Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Agriculture is holding their Crop Diagnostic School this week in Swift Current.
About 250 people are taking part in the event over the three days with about 40 to 50 volunteers each day.
One of the stations focuses on Disease Scouting and Identification.
Provincial Disease Specialist Barb Ziesman talked about some of the disease issues that we’ve seen in wheat this year:
"Well with wheat- diseases really are thriving this year, so we started with the stem rust, especially in winter wheat we're seeing that. We're seeing a lot of foliar diseases, so the leaf spots, the leaf spot complex, almost all of them are showing up this year, and fusarium headlight, especially coming up now and just recently as the wheat is coming into head, that's been a major concern, we've had very conducive conditions, and it's going to be a bit of a problem in some areas,"
Source : Discoverestevan